Dell PowerVault MD3600f Series, Installation Manual

Page 1: ...Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Arrays SMI S Provider Installation Guide ...

Page 2: ... any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc is strictly forbidden Trademarks used in this text Dell the DELL logo and PowerVault are trademarks of Dell Inc Microsoft Windows and Windows Server are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries SUSE is a registered trademark of Novell Inc in the United States and...

Page 3: ...ows Based Operating Systems 10 Linux Based Operating Systems 10 Configuring CIM Server 11 Uninstalling SMI S Provider 13 Windows Based Operating Systems 13 Linux Based Operating Systems 13 3 Managing the SMI S Provider 15 Starting and Stopping the OpenPegasus CIM Server 15 Windows Based Operating Systems 15 Linux Based Operating Systems 15 Adding or Removing a Storage Array From the SMI S Provider...

Page 4: ...4 Contents Changing the Debug Tracing Option 16 4 Troubleshooting the SMI S Provider 17 ...

Page 5: ...d a Common Information Model Object Manager CIMOM must be installed on a server A CIMOM is a CIM WBEM infrastructure that receives validates and authenticates CIM requests from the client application The CIMOM directs the requests to the appropriate device provider A native feature of the storage device API This implementation is sometimes referred to as an embedded agent Dell MD SMI S Provider is...

Page 6: ...egistration Device credentials Proxy server system management Multiple computer system Block services Disk drive lite Copy services Job control Extent composition Disk sparing Initiator port SAS and SATA Target port SAS iSCSI target port Access points Indications Masking and mapping Location Software inventory Software update Table 1 1 Version Information Component Version SMI S 1 4 SMI S Provider...

Page 7: ...Introduction 7 Block server performance NOTE Block server performance statistics are not available for controller firmware versions prior to 7 10 Erasure Battery Storage asymmetry Message log ...

Page 8: ...8 Introduction ...

Page 9: ...nstance of the SharedSecret per storage array Scalability There is no limit on the number of storage systems that can be supported by a single provider instance The recommended maximum is 10 moderately to fully configured storage systems per provider or around 5000 volumes total In large configurations deploy additional providers on different servers in your storage network to manage additional st...

Page 10: ...use The installation opens a text file in Notepad Follow the instructions in the text file After you have added the storage array and closed Notepad the installation program continues normally The SMI S Provider is installed on your system After the installation you can delete the installation executable file Linux Based Operating Systems The SMI S Provider is packaged as an archive file To instal...

Page 11: ... To set an https port cimconfig s httpsPort port p To enable or disable the http connection cimconfig s enableHttpConnection true false p To enable or disable the https connection cimconfig s enableHttpsConnection true false p To enable or disable authentication cimconfig s enableAuthentication false true p To add a user for defining the credentials for CIM client to authenticate with the CIM serv...

Page 12: ...g Information if SLP is Enabled propertyName Behavior runinternal PegasusSL P registerExternal PegasusSLP registerExternal OpenSLP register Multiple SLP true false false false Internal Pegasus SLP is started when cimserver starts false true false false External Pegasus SLP registration runs in cimserver with a default registration timeout set to 3 hours same as the SLP default timeout false false ...

Page 13: ...les such as trace files repository files and other administrative files that were created by SMI S Provider after the installation was complete These files might include trace files repository files and other administrative files Manually delete these files to completely remove SMI S Provider Linux Based Operating Systems Run the command rpm e package name The un installation process may leave fil...

Page 14: ...14 Installing and Uninstalling the SMI S Provider ...

Page 15: ...Pegasus CIM server on a terminal window type cimserver to start a service cimserver s to stop a service Adding or Removing a Storage Array From the SMI S Provider During installation you are prompted to enter the IP addresses into a file After this initial setup the SMI enabled client must use the SMI S Provider proxy server system management profile to add or remove devices NOTE When a storage ar...

Page 16: ...talled The default install directories are For Windows Program Files Dell pegasus provider array For Linux opt dell pegasus array 2 Edit providerTraceLog properties file in a text file editor Remove the pound sign from the lines containing File Level and Events You can edit the file name in the field File and directory you want This file contains the trace messages 3 Save providerTraceLog properti...

Page 17: ...top the CIM server 2 Set the new ports using the following commands cimconfig s httpPort HTTP PORT p cimconfig s httpsPort HTTPS PORT p 3 Start the CIM server CIMOM default port in use is not reported in the Microsoft Windows operating system In Windows if the default ports 5988 and 5989 are already in use during the SMI S Provider installation no message is displayed to state that the ports are i...

Page 18: ... than the return value but the SMI S Provider trace log shows that the method failed because of an authentication failure Update the Property Secret with the current storage array password in the OEM SharedSecret instance by using Modify Instance CIM You can perform this operation from the client used for communicating with SMI S Provider for example CIM Navigator The following message is displaye...